The Final Frontier

As seen from my driveway.

Posted for SeeitSunday: Space

This really looks silly as a thumbnail. Click on this one this one time. I know. It's hard. I know. Shhhh shhhh.

Update!

As I walk this world with a camera in my hand seeking out images that define life and the passage of time, from the first moment of a new baby's life to the final sights of a dying man, I do it, Gentle Viewer for you...

And when I am met on this long arduous journey, I am asked the same question every time I meet one of you in my travels:

"Is that bag still in the tree?"

Indeed it is. The saga of the bag begins here, here, here and here and updates are here, here and here.

And now of course, here. It's little more than a plastic ribbon now and has been in the tree for almost a year. I noticed it while enjoying my leaf-less view again and SINCE IT IS ALL YOU GENTLE VIEWERS CARE ABOUT, I thought I'd show you.

You are welcome.

Window Washer Redux

Posted for PhotoSharks: Windows 

An Offer I Couldn't Refuse.

I bought Orange for 50¢.

They tried to uptalk me to a buck but I stood firm. No rube, I.

So all you people submitting to Thursday Challenge: Orange?

You owe me.

The Indian Photographer

Several months ago I followed a link back from my Sitemeter and found myself and Calvin Coleman listed on this website as ADMIRED BLOGS! We each thought it was the other putting us on. But I kept going back and seeing post after post of rich Indian culture and I became hooked. The admiration goes both ways, although maybe he's a little more deserving than I am.

But he has learned much by observing The Thing of the Moment and picked up the fine art of pandering. Heh heh. Click the link to see the fine interview of your lowly and humble photographic servant. But more importantly, look around and learn more about India and all things cool in it as presented by your host, The Indian Photographer.

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!

Or to bring a towel to wipe the blood off your hands.

Because the nice poll workers don't think it's funny when you ask for one.

This message of civic rights and responsibilities brought to you by the former poll jokesters at:

The Thing of the Moment, "Not trying to be funny at the polls since 2008"

Moody Monday: Comfortable

 

1977 AMC Pacer

Last week gkirlin and kkirlin stopped buy with this little treaure. A tiny diecast model of my 1st car in LODEN GREEN! JUST LIKE MINE! I think they found it at the dollar store. But to me, it's priceless. (Much more than the actual car.) When I die, they will be peeling this out of my cold gray hand.
The Pacer has the best visibility of any car on the road before or since. It was a fishbowl on wheels. It could corner at 70 miles per hour because it's wheelbase was as wide as it was long. I delivered thousands of pizzas in it.
What was your first car?

DSL Modem

Posted for PhotoSharks: Internet 

Macroday: Tattoo

Not the greatest shot of the shoot, but the only macro. I have this needle 'thing'. You know how it is. 

All I Got Was a Whole Lotta Nothing.

Now listen up, son, ya might just learn something with this one. See the shape of that ledge and how it's the same shape as that mountain several miles behind it? They both have gradual inclines from the northwest to a sharper drop at the southeast. Glaciers polished the northwest face and plucked rocks from the southeast. You can see this shape repeated over and over throughout Downeast Maine. Yer welcome. Now onto a whole lotta nothing numero dos...
This is the Moon over the over-photographed (by me anyway) Egg Rock Light. That's the Moon in the upper left and Egg Rock Light is in the lower right. If you click on the image, you may have to come back here for reference
Parking on the illegal side of the Park Loop Road. We locals go CRAZY once the tourists leave. WOO HOO! Parking on the left! I'm NUTS!!!! And also freezing. Tourists leave for a reason.
"Birches Reflected in an Autumn Pond." If I could paint, I'd paint crap like this because the up and down strokes would be easy and if any dripped I'd say it was on purpose and you'd BUY it! Yer lucky I can't paint. Now you still have some money left.